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Cloudflare Changelog

D1, Workers - D1 Read Replication Public Beta

D1 read replication is available in public beta to help lower average latency and increase overall throughput for read-heavy applications like e-commerce websites or content management tools. Workers can leverage read-only database copies, called read replicas, by using D1 Sessions API. A session encapsulates all the queries from one logical session for your application. For example, a session may correspond to all queries coming from a particular web browser session. With Sessions API, D1 queri

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Cloudflare Changelog

Pipelines, R2, Workers - Cloudflare Pipelines now available in beta

Cloudflare Pipelines is now available in beta, to all users with a Workers Paid plan. Pipelines let you ingest high volumes of real time data, without managing the underlying infrastructure. A single pipeline can ingest up to 100 MB of data per second, via HTTP or from a Worker. Ingested data is automatically batched, written to output files, and delivered to an R2 bucket in your account. You can use Pipelines to build a data lake of clickstream data, or to store events from a Worker. Create you

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Cloudflare Changelog

R2 - R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into R2 buckets

Today, we're launching R2 Data Catalog in open beta, a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built directly into your Cloudflare R2 bucket. If you're not already familiar with it, Apache Iceberg is an open table format designed to handle large-scale analytics datasets stored in object storage, offering ACID transactions and schema evolution. R2 Data Catalog exposes a standard Iceberg REST catalog interface, so you can connect engines like Spark, Snowflake, and PyIceberg to start querying your tables us

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Next.js Blog

Next.js 15.3

Next.js 15.3 includes Turbopack for builds, new client instrumentation and navigation hooks, and more.

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Vercel Blog

Introducing Chatbot Template

Chat SDK has been renamed to , and a is now available to provide a unified language for chat bots across Slack, Teams, GitHub, and Discord.Update:Chatbot templatenew Chat SDK The powers across the web, and today we're announcing the —a best-in-class, production-ready template for building conversational AI applications like ChatGPT or Claude artifacts. AI SDKincredible applicationsChatbot Read more

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Vercel Blog

Grok 3 now available on Vercel Marketplace

xAI's latest and most powerful Grok 3 models are now available through the Vercel Marketplace, bringing state-of-the-art AI capabilities to your Vercel projects. To get started, you can use the in your project:AI SDK xAI provider Then, with Vercel CLI (or ):install the xAI Marketplace Integrationfrom the dashboard Once you've accepted the terms, you'll be able to use Grok models from within your project, with no additional steps necessary. To help you get started, we've also made a . To learn

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